The Tien Shan mountain range is one of the largest continuous mountain ranges in the world, extending approximately 1,550 miles (2,500 kilometers) roughly east-west across Central Asia. This image ...

Fly over the majestic Tien Shan Mountains in Kyrgyzstan with breathtaking drone footage showcasing towering snow-capped peaks ...

After the fall of the Soviet Union twenty years ago, water distribution in Central Asia became a source of conflict. In areas where summer precipitation is low, glaciers play an important role when ...

The Italian mountaineer Simone Moro plans to a six-month winter tour to climb mountains in the Tien Shan, Everest and Lhotse, and in doing so hopes to become the first Italian Snow Leopard On 21 ...

A group of tourists trekking in Kyrgyzstan‘s Tian Shan mountains on Friday survived a huge avalanche that swept right over them. One of the trekkers, Briton Harry Shimmin, managed to capture on video ...

The glaciers of Central Asia’s Tien Shan mountain range have lost a quarter of their ice mass over the past five decades, largely because of increased melting linked to a rise in summer temperatures, ...

Extending more than 1,500 miles across Central Asia, the Tien Shan is one of the longest continuous mountain ranges anywhere on Earth. This photograph, which documents the central section of the range ...

The history of the Silk Road, a vast network of ancient and medieval trade routes connecting Beijing and Hangzhou with Constantinople and Cairo, has mostly been focused on its endpoints: China and the ...

Using a dry stream as cover, Udayan crept towards the argali rams for a closer look. But he was not the only observer. He surprised a pack of six wolves just a few metres away. They fled in all ...